As teachers commemorate World Teachers’ Day today, educators in a village school in Kitaotao town, Bukidnon province are concerned after their village chief ordered the demolition of their high school structures.
Governor Johnny Pimentel of Surigao del Sur renews his calls to disband paramilitary forces who are allegedly responsible for the killing of officers of a tribal school and the evacuation of thousands of residents now camped at Tandag City provincial sports complex.
The local chief of a village in Kitaotao town Bukidnon gives a boarding high-school two days time to close their school.
The Senate began Thursday its inquiry into the killings of Lumad leaders in Surigao del Sur.
(Photo by Aya Ragragio) The Army on Monday held more than a hundred guests attending a foundation day of a Lumad school in Talaingod, Davao del Norte.
Before the leaders of the Mercy Mission entered Purok 2, representatives from the Local Government Unit of Kitaotao Municipality have already entered the area on the same day for a separate activity of giving relief goods to the residents.
Aside from being required to sign on the logbook at the entrance and exit points of Barangay White Culaman in Kitaotao town, Bukidnon, other residents have also experienced restrictions in their communication after members of the Army allegedly prohibited them to use mobile phones.
The public inquiry of the Commission on Human Rights on the plight of tribal communities in southern Mindanao, held Thursday, dismayed a council of tribal elders and their support groups.
Farmer villagers in a village in Bukidnon, northern part of Mindanao is experiencing hamletting similar to the scenario of Martial Law, an independent fact-finding mission of human rights groups reports held last September 16-18.
The New People’s Army on Sunday said the clash between a team of the NPA and two indigenous people’s (IP) who they said are “both members of Bolo Battalion in Sitio Tandacul, Barangay Lilingayon, Valencia City” was “unintentional”.
